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> bigger following among her fellow players

Most of which don't vote.

> and only alienate the older crowd

Most of whom do vote.

"who wouldn't like her anyway" Yea you missed that part, because it's true. Most of the older crowd in Maine are hard core conservative republicans.

Thanks, that was my point.

Isn't the average gamer a 30 year old male, fully capable of voting? In this case I think the "older crowd" are baby boomers. People born in the 70's and 80's grew up with video games, so I'm guessing they played/still play them/can identify with gamers.

This is state senate, so the districts are pretty small. 35 districts in a state of a million or so people. If it's anything like 99.99% of the state senate races in the US, most of the voters in that district probably didn't even know she was running. She's not even the incumbent, so she didn't have that going for her. If there's ever races that favor incumbents, it's state government seats. People just push the incumbent button.

So what could have triggered this? Was she really that much of a threat?

Seems like a small state party just screwed up and brought attention to someone that very likely would have lost anyway. Now it's interesting.

Seems to be semi-rural, from google maps...

EDIT- corrected suburban to semi-rural

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